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As students move up the grades and further in their history educations, they will be expected to write about it in increasingly sophisticated ways.

As a principal, your days are filled with decisions. How can you keep student learning central to your work and the school’s mission?

This PLC series, we're examining what it means to support a positive school culture with inclusive learning and growth opportunities.

It may seem strange to think about cultivating focus. Although natural abilities can vary, focus can be improved, cultivated, and taught.

Santa Fe: Day 2 & Day 3 Final Keynotes

If we keep talking about what our students know and can do and what the next appropriate goal is, we can use the cycle of evaluation to help students learn.

Because of the myriad ways writing workshop and oral language development are linked, it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

Santa Fe Multi-Day Institute 2018: Day One

A fine line is drawn when the principal acts as coach. If we want teachers to take risks and grow, we must learn to notice things with a coaching lens.

Tom Newkirk was recently featured in a 207 TV Interview on his book Embarrassment.

Sadness grew to rage as I looked at the children in my family who live in Arizona and wondered, whose histories will they learn?

Understand mindsets and practices that support positive school culture where whole-person learning and growth are honored for teachers and students alike.

Readers who read strictly for plot nearly always remain stuck in literal interpretations of text, and typically struggle with more complex reading skills.

New York Times, Best-selling author Jennifer Serravallo talks about her new on-demand course: Strategies in Action: Reading and Writing Methods and Content.

I recently received this question about coaching on my website: Is it the coach's responsibility to report the teachers' flaws to the principal?

Creating Powerful Book Clubs 4-8

Experience is what matters. Experience may be the best teacher, but does it get in the way of some of the best teaching?

A study written up by the Association for Psychological Science on factors that affect learning. Which traits help students to do well in school?